Core Competencies - Who developed them?

The SF Afterschool for All Core Competencies resulted from the work of many afterschool stakeholders.
Special thanks to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation for developing its Core Competencies for Afterschool Educators 2009 working document, which served as a basis for much of the San Francisco Core Competencies.

In fall 2009, the SF Afterschool for All Advisory Council created a work group to identify core competencies of afterschool staff as part of its overall efforts to increase collaboration and efficiently utilize resources to enhance afterschool program quality. Many thanks to the 2009‐10 Afterschool for All Program Quality Work Group for advising the process to develop the competencies and vet them with afterschool stakeholders in San Francisco. Members of the work group were:

• Jennifer Bloomer, Spark
• Chi‐En Chien Yu, Jamestown Community Center
• Rene F. Dahl, Ph.D., Department of Child and Adolescent Development, SFSU
• Stacey Daraio, consultant representing ExCEL‐ SFUSD
• Reeshemah L. Davis, Buchanan YMCA
• Mariel G. dela Paz, Performing Arts Workshop
• Deidre Hayden, Support for Families – Special Needs Inclusion Project
• Katie Krummeck, Spark
• Salina Lam, GLO
• Ali Metzler/Asha Mehta , SF Beacon Initiative
• Sandra Naughton, SF Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (facilitator)
• Pam Pradachith/ Emily LoSavio, Opportunity Impact
• Beth Rubenstein, Out of Site: Center for Arts Education
• Tara Ryan, SFUSD Child Development Program
• Jordan Thompson, SF Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (staff)

Thanks to Sandra Naughton, Sr. Planner and Policy Analyst, and Jordan Thompson, intern, of the SF Department of Children, Youth and Their Families for staffing the Afterschool for All Program Quality Work Group and researching, producing, editing, revising many versions of the competencies.

Thanks to the work completed by the Youth Worker: Collective and the Afterschool for All Workforce
Development Workgroup in 2008‐09 who gathered practitioner voice indentifying and prioritizing competencies for first‐year front‐line staff. The Youth Worker: Collective staff included Jason Wyman and Yas Ahmed, and theYWC Steering Committee included Vicky Valentine, Marquez Gray, Ryan McCarthy, Jan Holyko, Jora Atienza‐Washington, Vanessa Varko, Chris Ramos, and Tristen Frederickson. The Afterschool for All Workforce Development Workgroup in 2008‐09 included Alex Vila, Ben Wong, Bill Vanark, Carlos Almendarez, Dee Hayden, Jenny Arcilla‐Gonalez, Lin Ishihara, Eva Meyers, Max Rocha, Michael Luk, Kathleen White, Jason Wyman and Brian Stanley.